Philosophy of Human Nature Books

New and Published Books

1. Experimental Philosophy and its Critics

   Edited by Joachim Horvath, Thomas Grundmann

   Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Exceedingly Nietzsche

   Aspects of Contemporary Nietzsche Interpretation

   Edited by David Farrell Krell, David Wood

   Originally published in 1988, this collection brings together a wide range of original readings on Friedrich Nietzsche, reflecting many aspects of Neitzsche in contemporary philosophy, literature and the social sciences. The Nietzsche these contributors discuss is the Nietzsche who exceeds any...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
3. Authenticity and Learning

   Nietzsche's Educational Philosophy

   By David Cooper

   David E. Cooper elucidates Nietzsche's educational views in detail, in a form that will be of value to educationalists as well as philosophers. In this title, first published in 1983, he shows how these views relate to the rest of Nietzsche's work, and to modern European and Anglo-Saxon...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
4. On Humanism

   2nd Edition

   By Richard Norman

   Series: Thinking in Action

   What is humanism and why does it matter? Is there any doctrine every humanist must hold? If it rejects religion, what does it offer in its place? Have the twentieth century’s crimes against humanity spelled the end for humanism? On Humanism is a timely and powerfully argued philosophical defence...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self (Routledge Revivals)

   By Oliver Letwin

   This Routledge Revival reissues Oliver Letwin’s philosophical treatise: Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self, first published in 1987, which concerns the applicability of the artistic classifications of romanticism and classicism to philosophical doctrine. Dr Letwin examines three particular...

   Published December 5th 2011 by Routledge
6. G.H. Mead

   A Reader

   By G. H. Mead

   Edited by Filipe Carreira da Silva

   Series: Routledge Classics in Sociology

   This book introduces social scientists to the ideas of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) - one of the most original yet neglected thinkers of early twentieth century sociology. Mead is an exceptional case amongst sociological classics in that, until now, there has been no comprehensive reader of his...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
7. Freewill and Responsibility (Routledge Revivals)

   By Anthony Kenny

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This reissue was first published in 1978. Anthony Kenny, one of the most distinguished philosophers in England, explores the notion of responsibility and the precise place of the mental element in criminal actions. Bringing the insights of recent philosophy of mind to bear on contemporary...

   Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge
8. Rationality and Moral Theory

   How Intimacy Generates Reasons

   By Diane Jeske

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   This book provides answers to both normative and metaethical questions in a way that shows the interconnection of both types of questions, and also shows how a complete theory of reasons can be developed by moving back and forth between the two types of questions. It offers an account of the...

   Published November 3rd 2010 by Routledge
9. Of Human Potential (Routledge Revivals)

   An Essay in the Philosophy of Education

   By Israel Scheffler

   The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over. Although this concept accurately reflects central features of human nature, its current use perpetuates traditional myths of fixity, harmony and value, calculated to cause untold...

   Published June 30th 2010 by Routledge
10. Practical Identity and Narrative Agency

    Edited by Kim Atkins, Catriona Mackenzie

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    The essays collected in this volume address a range of issues that arise when the focus of philosophical reflection on identity is shifted from metaphysical to practical and evaluative concerns. They also explore the usefulness of the notion of narrative for articulating and responding to these...

    Published June 6th 2010 by Routledge